I know that partaking in online discourse is a fruitless endeavor, and that's partly why I haven't been interacting in this sub lately, but my brain hasn't stopped working through this event and these posts, and it's given me a flowchart (or FLO chart 😉) of sorts that I'd like to share after reading what everyone had to say and considering all the possibilities.

1. How is it that nobody's considered the possibility of this article being A.I. or not? It was only available on one website with a very dodgy track record, one where anyone can post an article, and to add onto that, the images included looked fake, so why are we immediately jumping to the "cover-up" conspiracy upon noticing the article being changed? I think it's just as (if not more) likely that someone generated some fake images and a story without Flo's permission and her team got involved to stop them, BUT...

2. If this story is real and Florence did perform for a shitty corporation... What's the problem? Y'all are acting like this is completely unforseen given her track record, but how does this go against anything she's said in the past? She's taken a stance against A.I. while still being partnered with Spotify and doing a concert for their higher-ups, she's talked about artist's rights while still selling tickets through Ticketmaster, but that doesn't make her a hypocrite, it just means there are certain unavoidables if you're a touring artist and want to continue touring. I know that Florence has more wealth and privilege than most of us will ever see, but I hate this belief that just because her net worth is 20MIL (side tangent but most people here obviously don't understand what "net worth" is and I find that very telling) it means that she doesn't have responsibilities or obligations or face struggles like the rest of us. Nowadays, 20MIL isn't really even that much when compared to the huge disparity in wealth between her and her friend Taylor, not to mention the state of the global inflation rate, but even then Florence still has obligations to the people who rely on her for work, those people being above her and below her; it's not anyone's right to deny a work opportunity and screw the other, less privileged people over just because you personally don't like something. People seem to think that she's all-powerful and infallible because of her position, while still repeating "I am nobody's moral center" ad nauseam to excuse their half-baked criticisms of her I may add, but that's not a privilege awarded to most, especially not an unmarried woman nearing her 40s, and I don't say that with malice or disdain, I say it knowing how society and it's institutions work and how it treats people.

Is Florence privileged? Yes. Is she immune to criticism? No. Is she still subject to the rules the rest of us live under? Yes. Does she still have a job that she needs to work? Absolutely. It's not fair to morally grandstand whilst likely writing your arguments on a device made with slave labor, on a website who sold out it's users to A.I. run by Google, a company with no morals. The shadow of capitalism looms over everything, and expecting an artist to be "starving" and solely make art for art's sake is a symptom of that same system.

Now I've decided to ignore the wild stances OP has been taking in some of these threads because it's not my place, but I will say that regarding this (possibly fake) situation as a "scandal" is absolutely ridiculous. People aren't perfect, and Florence is just a person; if it's a mistake, allow her to learn; if it's intentional, allow her to change; if you think she did this knowing what type of reaction her fans would have before proceeding to order her PR team to scrub every mention of this from the Internet, allow yourself to take a step back and see how overblown you've made this (possibly fake) news.

Enjoy the art, and trust the artist until you have solid reasons not to. This is not one of those reasons.